Anniversaries

19th September 1945 (69 Years)

Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) is sentenced to death in London.

19th September 1970 (44 Years)

The first Glastonbury festival is held.

19th September 1991 (23 Years)

Discover of Ötzi the Iceman, well-preserved natural mummy of a man who lived around 3,300 BCE.

20th September 1863 (151 Years)

Jacob Grimm, author and one of the Grimm brothers, died.

20th September 1934 (80 Years)

Sophia Loren, Italian actress, declared "one of the world cinema's treasures", was born.

20th September 1946 (68 Years)

The first Cannes Film Festival was held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.

21st September 1832 (182 Years)

Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet, died.

21st September 1866 (148 Years)

H. G. Wells, the "Father of Science Fiction", is born.

21st September 1937 (77 Years)

J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.

22nd September 1791 (223 Years)

Michael Faraday, English scientist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry, is born.

22nd September 1989 (25 Years)

Irving Berlin, the American songwriter and lyricist, died.

22nd September 1996 (18 Years)

Dorothy Lamour, American actress and singer, died.

23rd September 1889 (125 Years)

Wilkie Collins, the British author best known for 'The Woman in White', died.

23rd September 1938 (76 Years)

Romy Schneider, Austrian-French actress and singer, was born.

23rd September 1939 (75 Years)

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis, died.

23rd September 1968 (46 Years)

The Tet Offensive, one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, ended.

24th September 1717 (297 Years)

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, also known as Horace Walpole, English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician, was born.

24th September 1896 (118 Years)

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, American novelist whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, was born.

24th September 1937 (77 Years)

Benito Mussolini gives a speech to a crowd of thousands at the Berlin Olympiastadion.

25th September 1513 (501 Years)

Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa and his team become first Europeans to see the Pacific Ocean.

25th September 1613 (401 Years)

Claude Perrault, French physician and architect, is born.

26th September 1791 (223 Years)

Théodore Géricault, French painter and lithographer, known for The Raft of the Medusa, is born in Rouen, France.

26th September 1874 (140 Years)

Lewis Wickes Hine, American photographer who used his camera as a tool for social reform, is born.

26th September 1888 (126 Years)

T. S. Eliot, poet, dramatist and critic, was born.

26th September 1914 (100 Years)

August Macke, German Expressionist Painter, died.

26th September 1934 (80 Years)

RMS Queen Mary was launched in Clydebank, Scotland.

27th September 1905 (109 Years)

Albert Einstein publishes a paper in which he explains the equivalence of matter and energy (E=mc2).

27th September 1917 (97 Years)

Edgar Degas, French painter, dies.

28th September 1865 (149 Years)

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Britain's first Woman doctor, gets a qualification.

28th September 1914 (100 Years)

Richard Sears, the co-founder of Sears Roebuck & Co, dies.

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